National Infrastructure Protection Center
NIPC Daily Open Source Report for 20 December 2002
Daily Overview
. CERT has released Advisory CA-2002-3: Buffer Overflow in
Microsoft Windows Shell. (See item 20)
. Foundstone reports a buffer overflow exists in Microsoft
Internet
Risk management perfect tool for holiday, winter season
by Lt. Col. Juan Gaud
Electronic Systems Center chief of safety
12/18/2002 - HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. (AFPN) -- In our haste during
this time o! f the year we often make decisions without giving much
thought to the risks involved or
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London, Friday, December 20, 2002
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INFOCON News
(Usually I send my detailed comments only onto the IWS Limited List, but as the paper
is so interesting I make an exception. I like the paper, even though the definition of
Cyberterrorism is not the greatest one and I do not like the bit about the WWII as it
is too simplistic ('know thy
(The study is available at
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309087023/html/index.html. WEN)
Study Finds Internet Showed Resilience in Terrorist Attacks
(Analysis explores how to brace information technologies for future
attacks) (1050)
The Internet sustained minimal damage when terrorists attacked
